Library Recommendation
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Released: 2018 Label: Naviar Records Genre: Contemporary Song Lines is mostly a traditional work built largely around McCorry’s delicate touch on the cello. If you were to ask what peace of mind sounds like, this would be as good an answer as any. The Moderns
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Released: 2023 Label: Public Recordings Genre: Contemporary The piece begins with each performer choosing five notes with which to work during the piece’s duration, which can run in three equal segments totalling thirty minutes, forty-five minutes, or an hour. This version comes in at around forty-eight minutes. There are specific directions for the notes chosen, including…
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Released: 2022 Label: Alder & Ash / Lost Tribe Sound Genre: Contemporary If I Were My Body confronts the self-hatred many men feel about their own bodies, the link to patriarchy and oppression, and the measure against an unattainable standard of beauty. Few men speak about this (“Dude, you ever feel insecure when you watch sports?”), but…
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Released: 2022 Label: 577 Records Genre: Jazz In broad strokes, their music sits somewhere between late fifties Sun Ra Arkestra and Bebe and Louis Barron. Powered forward by a sculptural approach to drumming akin to Valentina Magaletti or Will Guthrie. On ‘Entrechócanse’ the electronics play out cosmic dialling tones which the trumpet’s frantic runs seem to mimic,…
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Released: 2022 Label: Zoharum Genre: Contemporary Replacing the glitching frenzy of bubbling, frothy digital frenzy that is Gintas K’s trademark is a much sparser, more minimal approach to composition, with single notes that sound like ersatz strings being plucked, atop quivering drones and low-rumbling organ sounds that fliker erratically like gas lights and resonating out into a…
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Released: 2024 Label: Whited Sepulchre Records Genre: Jazz The scholar Bernice Johnson Reagon once said that music was like “running sound through the body.” Amen puts us in touch with our bodies and it connectedly moves the soul. Guidry travels through several genres here, yet cradles them within one vision, led by the bassoon’s peculiar pathos. On its mission…
The Moderns 